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Though ICANN believe there is no domain name front running I still occasionally read such a story on community forums. Up tol 2008, domain name “tasting” allowed registrars to register large quantities of domain names, and see if they could produce significant adds revenue, but drop the ones that were not making profit. In 2009, 99.7 percent of domain name tasting was abandoned when ICANN announced they had made large-scale domain name tasting financially unviable. Though however, it still enabled for a small number of domain names to be tasted, which can lead to the unscrupulous practice of DNFR. One solution is to use your computer’s terminal access that connects directly to registry databases, rather than using a web interface through your computer’s browser. By doing that, you bypass the “middleman” registrar. However for me personally the solution was to find a smaller but trustworthy registrar that will offer services which are adequate for my needs.

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Other than people mindeset to “default” to .com when searching, there are no drawbacks to .us and search engine wise it is even better for websites that want to target USA audience as it is a ccTLD. I would recommend Accredited Registrar for registering a country code domain name.

Having in mind that a certain trademark or brand is registered and certified internationaly, though you could register it, if you don’t have legal rights to it you may end up with infringement lawsuit. The trademark owner can contact the registry operating that domain, file a complaint and you could lose the domain ownership.

Talking about domain names, unless you are aiming at making a single word memorable brand, then it is best to make appropriate two word domain name describing the main subject or the services your website is offering. Meaningful combination that the search engines will be able to process and better estimate your target audience are not easy to find unregistered, while domainers are still reporting two word domain sales. Important to note is that you should avoid complicated combinations that are easy to misspell or hard to remember. Though today content quality and the off page SEO is the king, because search engines are evolved and dig much deeper into your website then before and strong backlinks will give you organic traffic so if your website has even 3 or 4 word it is not that much of a problem.

Besides the average data seek time that hard drives is around 20ms and solid state drive has under 1ms, most notable performance increase SSD has over HD is the ability to handle large number of I/O (input/output) operations per second. That is why a PC with system on SSD, after the initial boot of around 10 seconds is already available for user to start working (while with HD sometimes you need to wait few minutes until system settles to be able to start working). Having that in mind, some of the cheaper SATA SSD models handle around 10.000–30.000 operations per second and those models are good enough for laptops and desktop PCs that are used for browsing internet, checking mail, even gaming. Though for a user that will do some heavy usage or wants overall instant response from his PC it would be recommend to get a model which is rated at 70.000–100.000 operations per second. To sum it up, after upgrading to a decent SATA SSD you will have very fast system boot, ability to star...

For a new website most important is to get organic traffic. Offpage search optimisation is the name of the game. Don't wait for traffic to come by itself. Post about your website on other high authority websites, comment with educational and creative backlinks to your website. Make a Facebook page for your business, Google+ page with detailed information, YouTube channel for some video clips about your business or website. The more organic traffic you get so will the profit come sooner. Register for Google Analytics and monitor website traffic, bounce rate, return rate, most visit days, visitors demographic … etc.

The blog domain name will be its brand. Your brand. Good example of company going with a short and creative brand is indeed Google, Facebook, EBay... etc. Search wise it can be beneficial if the blog domain name contains a keyword targeted at the audience or niche you are blogging about, though it is not a must. In any case keep it short, up to two words and if you can avoid numbers, so visitors can memorise it quick and don’t get confused about numbers in the domain name. Having all that in mind, still most important is the content presented in the blog, don’t dwell on the domain name for too long. If the content is creative, educational and original then visitors will be coming back for more and will share your blog with others and that is the best thing that can happen. Narrow it down to few choices and eliminate them until you have only one and go with it.

There is no real need to add your location to domain name. If you need to target local audience best strategy is to get a country code domain name. At present search engines give favor to ccTLD in local search so your website would display before generic top level domains such as .com or .org etc. For example if a someone from UK uses Google to search, it will get .uk and . co.uk first and then under will be .com and other generic top level domains. Then again if your company already owns a generic top level domain which has some value in ranking and you have some global audience it would be best that you register the ccTLD too and redirect it to your main website to get best results local and global.

Domain name is good if it is serving its purpose, depending on the type of its website. When choosing a domain name there are some things to remember: For a website that is a company presentation with contact info the domain name can be same as company name. For a product or a brand presentation website, the domain name should be catchy, memorable and easy to recognise - as it is a part of a long-term strategy with branding in mind. Domain name does not have to contain keywords or location if you are focusing on making your own branding (Example: Amazon, EBay, Google…). Keywords in domain name are still beneficial as search engines will put at the top search results that are very relevant to your search criteria. Creating shortest most memorable domain name that people will share takes time, don’t rush. Be original, take time and research what brands the competition is using, don’t copy or get a similar brand as you will probably lose brand identity. Chances are...

What would be the definition of killer URL? It means your website is on a single domain, website structure is done with permalinks (human readable separate page URLs) which are done with keywords, shorter URLs are better because the communication is clearer, page titles match URLs, avoid punctuations or hash in URL… etc.   If the website is not a straight company presentation then it’s best to have some keywords in domain name, and in the website page names too - as it will enable the search engines to better index your content and give your website better ranking in the niche you are targeting. Two medium word or even three short ones for the domain name is fine. That why most “domainers” pre-register good word combo in hopes to resell them later.

Original owner can renew before it expires, after it expires there is a redemption period when he can renew but with added redemption cost fee. When the redemption period is over, if the domain name has value, the registrar will put it to auction and after the auction end it will go to the highest bidder. If there are no auction bids then registrar will return the domain to its registry and it will be available once again for anyone to register.

I guess that by website name you mean the company logo that is displayed in the website content. If that is the case then they don’t have to be the same. For example if you are selling branded shoes then your website could be http://branded-shoes.com but when visitors enter website only then they see your company logo (company name). Using keywords in the domain name helps search engines better indexing for your website, and assess your target audience and/or industry niche etc. In fact if the website is not the plain company presentation or your company name is not a global brand that is recognisable by itself (like CocaCola or Armani) then you should be going for keywords in domain name as it will get you more traffic from search engines.

In 2016, more than 44,000,000 people used the internet in the Philippines, somewhere around 43% of the total country population. 52% of Filipinos had a computer with high speed Internet connection at home, though a survey showed the average internet speed of 4.5 Mbps and small percent of users over 30 years. This leads to conclude that the utilisation of internet in the country is still expecting growth and will lead to greater demand for website domains with .ph extension. In the event that your market is the Philippines, getting a .PH domain will give you an edge, specially considering search engines do prioritize local websites. .ph Domain Requirements: Anyone can register .ph domain Minimum registration length is one year Domain names cannot correspond to well-known or prestigious brands that belong to someone else or to a geographical name. No additional fees are needed to register .ph domain. Domain Names must: have minimum of 3 and a maximum of 63...

Though on-page website search engine optimisation is not hard to do, search engines have been added new algorithms that refine your website ranking by the relevance of the content and the backlinks your website get from other high authority (high ranked) websites. Off-page SEO involves techniques such as link building, social media marketing, and so on. The best ones are building backlinks on high authority domains and lots of social links. Even though those backlinks might not be from your niche, the high of level of authority more than offset that and are definitely more effective than blog commenting. Make notable posts with images, blog/post comments about your website/business activities on other relevant websites to get real “organic” traffic. Build your presence with Facebook page, YouTube channel, Google+ page, Instagram... etc. You will get more organic traffic within a short period through off page SEO. THIS include following · Quora answer with website URL ...

Some points on website SEO (search engine optimisation): Your website pages should have “a proper word names” and text links from one page to another and search engines will better index your website Different page content should have titles and subtitles, you can use different keywords that essentially mean the same so you get more word hits by search engine Content should be unique, educational Never copy paste from another website as it will only give other website better ranking Use meta tags - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en Optimise use of images, give titles and alt titles to images, use common file types like jpg, png etc. Next thing is the so called off page SEO: Be sure to promote your content, make use of social media - Facebook, Google+, Youtube etc. That  will lead to faster content discovery by those who are interested in the same subject Add your business to Google Places Use Google Analytics to monitor your ...

Yes, when thinking about websites most of us default to .com if we don’t know the domain on which the website was. Recently though, at least for tech companies a creative and catchy alternatives have come to mind - .io or .tech. Since .io represents input/output for short (I/O) the new tech startups love it and for tech savvy people it will be catchy and easy to remember. Also if you have global audience then .tech is good too since it has same search engine ranking as any other gTLD, though it adds a keyword to your domain name and search engines love keywords in domain names.